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What is the difference between drug abuse and drug addiction?
I’m witing a little more freely and I wonder if anyone I can give you a addequite difference between drug abuse and Drogenabhängigkeit.Die definition of an addict is 1 To cause to become physiologically or psychologically dependent on habit-forming Substanz2. It must prove (to themselves) or to participate (in) something habitually or obsessively definition of drug abuse: he use of illegal drugs or the inappropriate use of legal drugs. The repeated use of drugs to produce pleasure, relieve stress or to alter or avoid reality (or all three). The use of a drug for a purpose other than that for which it is normally required or empfohlen.Ort habitual misuse of a chemical StoffesSie are very similar definitions. Nearly gleiche.Warum people are either as perpetrators or a drug addicted classified? Drug users usually do not get the care intes addictive. Remember, the definition of addic include psychological dependence. . . not just physically.
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about 5 months ago
I hope you will source your definitions. Your secondary definition of an addict would make everyone with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder an addict.
Under federal law an addict is any individual who habitually uses any narcotic drug so as to endanger the public morals, health, safety, or welfare, or who is so far addicted to the use of narcotic drugs as to have lost the power of self-control with reference to his addiction. – 21 USC Sec. 802
Drug abuse is wholly determined by the legal status of a substance as your definition indicates. That is the distinction between addicts and abusers. Using cocaine once is abuse. Subsequent habitual use makes one an addict.
about 5 months ago
when you are addicted, you are abusing them..so, not much difference
about 5 months ago
Well, caffeine is addictive but it doesn’t really do any harm. It’s a legal drug consumed by hundreds of millions of people and even though they are addicted (the withdrawal symptoms are surprisingly severe) they do not risk health problems and so there is no particular reason for them to quit.
There are also people who are addicted to illegal drugs but do not suffer serious harm.
You’re right that there’s not much difference in the definitions but it is possible to be a drug addict yet not a drug abuser.
about 5 months ago
The definition and the explanation of Question is well explained by you only. I hope no more explanation and definition is required.
about 5 months ago
drug abuse-when you get pain killers from the doctor and you take too many for the effects
addiction is when you can’t stop taking them,because you’re addicted to them.
drug abuse usually comes before addiction